After years of fundraising to save a historic World War II battleship gun barrel that seemed destined for a scrapyard, a nonprofit organization will finally give it a permanent home at Fort Story ...
In mid-1945 the U.S. (USN) had an unusual, and unexpected, problem. With the naval war well in hand, the USN had plenty of battleships Navyand little use for them. Had the United States eventually ...
Key Points - The USS Alabama (BB-60), a South Dakota-class fast battleship commissioned in 1942, played a significant role in World War II. -Initially tasked with escorting Allied convoys to the ...
In her prime, she was the biggest, baddest gun in the Atlantic, so potent she didn’t even have to fire her massive guns in combat as foreign warships steered clear. The background shows: Two P-51 ...
The largest, most massive battleships to ever exist were the Japanese Yamato-class WWII-era warships which incorporated nine ultra-large 460mm 18.1-inch naval guns. The large weapons, designed for ...
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